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Trade shows have become a particularly sought after asset in media M&A lately. B2B publisher 1105 Media has just sold its education technology events to LRP Publications

French industrialist Vincent Bolloré has increased his stake in Vivendi, tightening his grip on the media and content group on the eve of a showdown with activist shareholders.

Haymarket Media Group has reported pre-tax profits of £11.1 million in the year to 30 June 2014, up from a loss of £7.6 million in the preceding 18 months

Profits at Bertelsmann, Europe’s biggest media group by revenue, dropped 35 per cent last year as it scaled back on declining businesses

Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE), held at Olympia London alongside the inaugural Retail Design Expo. RBTE 2015 attracted 12,043 visitors on 9-10 March, (1,500+ international) and 450 exhibitors

Organiser Clarion Events has announced the acquisition of Internet Retail Events Ltd from SJP Business Media.

Programmatic media-buying is growing fast, but in an apparent paradox, it is growing faster among advertisers and agencies than the big publishers and ad networks they do business with

Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire Action Exchange, Inc., a leading mobile performance-based marketing business with an e-commerce orientation in the United States

Global ad spend is projected to grow 4.4% this year to reach $544 billion, according to ZenithOptimedia’s (ZO) Advertising Expenditure Forecasts a reduction from the shop’s initial forecast in December when it projected a 4.9% gain in 2015 ad spending.

Marketers are expected to spend $540 billion globally on advertising this year, a 4.6% increase over 2014, according to a report by media-agency Carat. The year-over-year increase comes despite a relative lack of tent-pole media events

Martin Sorrell, the chief executive officer at WPP, says newspapers and magazines might not be getting the credit they deserve

Daily Mirror publisher understood to be looking at £200m deal for group owning titles that include the Nottingham Post and the Cambridge News. Local World

Loaded magazine, one of the so-called “lads’ magazines” of the mid-1990s, is to close down this week, publisher Simian said

UBM bought Advanstar for close to a billion dollars late last year, and the company isn’t wasting any time in taking advantage of the 150 events and 30 publications it got in the deal.

Social network becomes increasingly popular with video publishers.

HBO is putting Vice Media at the centre of its push into digital streaming with a daily news show that will run on its new standalone HBO Now video service as well as on television.

Digital advertising is expected to grow by 12% this year to £8.1bn, according to eMarketer. Digital advertising is expected to grow by 12% this year to £8.1bn, making the UK the first country in which £1 in every £2 will go on digital media

IHS Inc., a leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced it has acquired the business assets of Dataium, a U.S.-based company that provides essential business intelligence and analysis to the automotive industry.

UBM Americas have annouced the formation of UBM Lifesciences bringing together events and print brands under one division

This creates a new national exhibition for Switzerland, which in future will bring together the entire value chain of logistics, packaging, distribution and trade under one roof.